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flemmingbo wrote:I don't think the number itself is accurate at all anyway. And while it's certainly technically possible to try and store the url of the page linking directly to a photo, storing this data for any period of time would create a mega mega mega database for Pbase to handle. Not to mention the actual tracking and recording itself of billions of links to images would create a huge load on the servers. I think that's the main reason it's not recorded.
regards,
Flemming
flemmingbo wrote:The database load might not be much but I believe some sort of tracking system to retrieve and record the IP address of the server doing the direct linking would have to be running all the time, wouldn't it ? I mean just typing in a Pbase image url in a browser and adding .jpg to the end creates a direct link. I do remember Slug discussing this long time ago, maybe we can find his answer in some old thread.
How useful would the location be anyway when you think about it? Yes, if someone stole one of my images and are using it for example on their webpage without paying me a license fee then yeah I would like to know. But in this case they're probably not direct linking anyway, they probably saved a copy of my file. If we had a recording of the direct link locations I would suspect that 99% would be from various forums and blogs on the net. Personally I'm not really gonna go after people linking to my images on their private blog - as long as it's not a corporation, then I'll definitely unleash the hounds
I'll see if I can find Slug's old explanation...
regards,
Flemming
prinothcat wrote:I have images linked and for fun would like to know who linked to them. Some I know and some I do not.
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